2010: Blowout: The Deepwater Horizon Disaster
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Published 2018-12-16
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All Comments (21)
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It always starts with an incompetent supervisor..
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let this be a lesson to all major companies. IF YOU THINK SAFETY IS EXPENSIVE TRY AN ACCIDENT
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Mike Williams.. An ordinary name, an ordinary man, capable of extraordinary things.. God bless you and your family..
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No one should die at their job. Due to the greed and negligence of others.
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The Deepwater Horizon was "celebrated as among the safest in the fleet." Yeah... so was the Titanic.
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Don't forget the 11 Men who did not make it home to their love ones. Jason C. Anderson, age 35 Aaron Dale Burkeen, 37 Donald Clark, 49 Stephen Ray Curtis, 39 Gordon L. Jones, 28 Roy Wyatt Kemp, 27 Karl D. Kleppinger, Jr., 38 Keith Blair Manuel, 56 Dewey A. Revette, 48 Shane M. Roshto, 22 Adam Weise, 24
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I bet you BP didn’t want mike to survive and that’s a fact
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I bet BP dreads the fact that these men survived and can tell the story. Without them and their knowledge of what happened, BP is clear to write the story how they feel.
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I could listen to Mike talk all day. Well-spoken and intelligent man. It's absurd that BP's only punishment was a collective of fines that still left them worth $96 billion.
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*tries to save $2 Million in doing so cost $60 billion
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Williams experience is so emotional.
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I salute that man Mike Williams . Top worker, team player, leader
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As a laborer, when he said “I got mad at the doors,” I really felt that.... I curse at my tools and material all the time lol
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"THERES RUBBER AAND OUR SAFETY THINGS ARE GONE!" Supervisor: ah its fine nothing will happen stop being a chicken
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Every executive in BP should be in prison. PERIOD
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Can we all just appreciate this as an excellent work of journalism
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Mike, you did survive for a reason: someone had to tell the story of what happened.
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Pressure to satisfy Investors is exactly why safety is often neglected.
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Almost 100 years later, this was the Titanic of the 2010's that happened for all the same reasons: speed, overconfidence in modern technology, trying to out-perform the competition and pure greed.
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As a resident of Biloxi, I can say that the Gulf is still ruined. It will be for a million life times.
